Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, August 2021
4 tornado watches in August 2021. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 17, 20213 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 24 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rockingham County3
- Stokes County3
- Alexander County2
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Caldwell County2
- Catawba County2
- Cleveland County2
- Davie County2
- Gaston County2
- Henderson County2
- Iredell County2
- Lincoln County2
- McDowell County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Mitchell County2
- Polk County2
- Rowan County2
- Rutherford County2
- Union County2
- Yancey County2
- Alleghany County2
- Ashe County2
- Surry County2
- Watauga County2
- Wilkes County2
- Yadkin County2
- Caswell County2
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Transylvania County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.